“Committing his imagined community to primordialism, Morris, however, exercises quite a selective approach to the landscape of 21st-century England.”
“Such primordialism is reactionary and crudely nationalistic in the modern European tradition, betraying the mid-nineteenth-century origins of many Pagan movements.”
“Betiang's cultural commitment thus agrees with Young's assertion that primordialism seeks to identify and define the cultural, psychological dimensions of ethnicity.”
“Yet his writing is emptily abstract and opaque, e.g. As images of posteriority, ruins reveal the primordiality of the temporal law dial holds sway over their obsolescence.”
“This emphasis on the primordiality of particular practices is, I think, one of the ways that Hauerwas has had the most marked influence on other thinkers.”
“This conception assumes the primordiality of theoretical cognition of things.”